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Hundreds of Thousands Locked Out of Voting Because of Drug War Policies

Estimates range from 300,000 to more than 900,000 former Florida felons who’ll be staying home on Election Day because voting rights were taken–Many of these individuals are locked out of civic engagement because of previous drug charges.

Significant Differences Amid Candidates’ Drug Policies

The differences among the two presidential candidates are sharp, including that of drug policies.

UCLA Prop. 36 2008 Final Study

The University of California – Los Angeles issued a new report on California’s Prop. 36, also known as the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000.

Measures Would Greatly Expand Oregon Prison System

Oregon voters are faced with two competing measures that could expand the prison industrial complex by over $1 billion.

Methamphetamine: Prohibition Shifts Smuggling Routes

The demand for meth and prohibition of its ingredients is re-shaping the global drug trafficking map.

Tues Oct 14, 2008 News Articles

Voters could relax marijuana penaltiesStateline.orgProposition 5: Measure requires greater leniency in drug crimesVentura County (CA) StarS.F. leads way on patient-friendly pot clubsSan Francisco (CA) Chronicle,Official: Drug problem in schoolsWheeling…

Incarceration Causes More Harm Than Benefit

Starting in 1996, the Vancouver Injection Drug User Study now demonstrates how incarceration creates more harm than benefit for injection drug users.

Overdose Fatalities Avoided

More research demonstrates the high importance of Insite, a harm reduction medical agency for injection drug users.

Medical Marijuana: Potential $40 Billion Pharma Market

Over the past 20 years studies have shown the efficacy of using marijuana in medicine specifically its psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol. Forty billion dollars is the number of dollars up for grabs in the North American pharma market for pa…

Brother of Afghanistan President Alleged Drug Trafficker

Numerous reports and current and former officials from the White House, the State Department and the United States Embassy in Afghanistan link brother of Afghanistan President, Ahmed Wali Karzai, to drug trafficking.

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